Things I Am Thankful For

On this Thanksgiving day, I thought it would be good to list some of the things that I am thankful for (in no particular order) before I have to get together with family and forget all of them.
1. Sleep
2. The lyrics of Don Chaffer
3. My husband, who loves me and likes to do projects
4. My dell digital jukebox, which has been playing for 3 hours and not repeated a song
5. The fact that Andrew is at his grandmother's house right now
6. Real friends, the kind that demonstrate the truth of this passage by Anne Lamott

"Their friends' love turned out to be the sound of God at the mouth of the cave, a breeze to sustain and help guide them. It would be great if we could go in and out of this place without needing drugs or Ahab on our tail - to go into the mystic or the eternally present or whatever we might call it out here in California. But mostly it seems like we can't do it when we have out act together, because we can't do it when we're acting."

7. Dew on the spider webs on my deck - how is it that such a foul creature makes something so lovely?

8. Gollum, because he reminds me that I probably don't know what is best for me

9. Bono

10. The knowledge that I do not have to be the same way I am now. That change is possible. That if I really believe what I say I believe, then I am a new creation in Christ - already but not yet.